Where are we for 2014?

There have been a few things discussed about movement within the leagues from Conference League South downwards. Anybody have any news about who's going where and what the structure might look like for this coming season?

The Superleague and Championship fixtures are out now, championship 1 is supposed to be announced 2nd or 3rd December I believe. I would expect the NCL to be announced after that and then the premiership/regional leagues. I have been told that all the fixtures from NCL down should be out before Christmas, so lets hope that's right.

All I have heard on the rumour front re London Premiership is that St Albans and two more clubs have asked to join, but don't know which two, and awaiting news to see if SW London Chargers are splitting back to South and West London or staying together.

In 2014 the London Prem started end of March, and I think they had the London Cup before that, (and don't they send the fixtures out to each club so they can confirm/rearrange some of the games if necessary?) so would hope they don't leave it to only a few weeks before the season starts - surely the clubs deserve as much notice as possible.

In 2014 the London Prem started end of March, and I think they had the London Cup before that, (and don't they send the fixtures out to each club so they can confirm/rearrange some of the games if necessary?) so would hope they don't leave it to only a few weeks before the season starts - surely the clubs deserve as much notice as possible.

It started with one fixture end of April and the rest May according to the London RL website.

The matchdays were reserved in advance but the first round of the London Cup was drawn at the London Nines on April 20th.

It started with one fixture end of April and the rest May according to the London RL website.

Sorry, I thought some of the London Cup games and 9's were played before the leagues first round at the end of April. Lets hope that the fixtures are a bit earlier this season so we can see which teams are playing where.

Without consulting my records, London Cup dates last year were 2nd weekend of May, 1st weekend of June, last weekend of June and 3rd week of July. As I said, the first round draw was at the London Nines, there was banter galore as you can imagine.

and awaiting news to see if SW London Chargers are splitting back to South and West London or staying together.

South London Storm are returning next season after a year out of the game, and look likely to be back at a re-vamped Streatham-Croydon RFC. This has nothing to do with anything that might happen at the Chargers. It's news to me that they are looking to split.

Speaking of next year... South London (Sto...?) will be back. We wanted it to happen this year, but this summer has seen the first stage of the £1m redevelopment of Streatham-Croydon RFC - our home of old, including new stand, showers, sheds, car park, perimeter fencing, floodlights and terracing. Next stage is a complete refurb of the clubhouse.

Number 16, on 22 Jul 2013 - 12:05 PM, said:

There'll be a South London re-launch meeting in September. So until then... watch this space.

I seem to be apologising a bit on this thread, so, sorry No16, I assumed from your posts above, on another thread, that as SW London Chargers were made up of lads from SLS and West London, that if SLS were re forming, it would mean the 'old' SLS lads would 'return' to their old club from SW Chargers. Didn't mean it to sound as if a 'split' was on the cards.

By the time they finished, there essentially was no West London so I'm not sure how they could "demerge". What is around now is a small rump of players that played for the latter-day Storm and a bunch of new players that turned up when they moved to Clapham.

No worries Jasper, and no need to apologise! I guess that the situation is confusing.

SW London Chargers were a new club, not a merger of Storm and Sharks - as confirmed to us by one of the former Storm officials who was instrumental in setting up the Chargers. In fact, he stated that he was happy to have others continue the Storm club should they wish to do so - and we do!

It's debatable whether Storm ever formally 'closed' as the club was set up under a formal Constitution but wasn't dissolved under the constitution. Also, bank accounts etc still exist in South London Storm's name.

They want it to seem like it was a merger because to them, that's how it felt. However, from a constitutional perspective, they formed a new committee and a new club. As far as I know, West London officially folded and, according to Number 16 (and he should really know), South London essentially abandoned the company without closing it down. I said before, I was very cynical about the Chargers. However, I don't argue with success.

From what I've seen, it will be an interesting 2014 but lots of people need to stop sitting on their hands. I've heard of (I think) four new teams looking to get ready for 2014 and they're not particularly far along the line with organisation. We start our pre-season three months from today, our preparations started three months ago.